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When grown-up jellyfish love each other very much, they make huge numbers of teeny-tiny potato-shaped larvae. Those larvae grow into little polyps that cling to rocks and catch prey with their stinging... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 months 1 week ago • 38 views • 4:39The Palestinian ambassador to the U.N. speaks to the assembly about the actual Palestinian position on the Israeli war. It bears mentioning that Hamas is not the elected governing body, they seized control... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 months 1 week ago • 109 views • 42 secs"Get into the spooky spirit with some of our favorite Count von Count moments, from classics like Batty Bat to new Halloween hits like The Cookie Monster Nosh, in this Best of The Count Compilation! ..."
posted by ant 2 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 8 views • 42:40Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened. It sounded like a pitch for a Hollywood... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 560 views • 10:12YouTube description: While clubs are practically synonymous with ankylosaurs, we’ve only started to get to the bottom of how they worked and how this unusual anatomy developed in the first place. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,094 views • 9:31From Youtube, "The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 211 views • 11:41https://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading
posted by eric3579 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 930 views • 7:59A NYC cabbie counts to 100 in French.
posted by w1ndex 3 years 10 months 1 week ago • 295 views • 3:44In most developed countries, workers have the right to a certain number of paid sick days. It’s a policy that isn’t rooted in just generosity — during pandemics like the novel coronavirus, it can... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 430 views • 6:33"The Count needs the help of the Miami Mice to make it to the spaceship countdown on time!"
posted by ant 4 years 2 months ago • 65 views • 5:05The World's Biggest Gear Reduction by designer and maker of prototypical machines, devices and tools Daniel de Bruin. This machine visualizes the number googol. That's a 1 with a hundred zeros. A number... continue reading
posted by BSR 4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,211 viewsThis successful test of the upgraded and now human rated Dragon capsule is the first step towards the USA being able to send astronauts to the ISS without hitching a lift on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 516 views • 4:57YT: Two: the inside and the outside (badum tshh)! But taking a more scientific approach, do bananas actually have 5 sides like all the pub quizzes say? Dr Sally Le Page is a British evolutionary biologist... continue reading
posted by Zawash 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 51 views • 10:07YouTube description: The Yucatan peninsula is one of the busiest tourist destinations in the world and every year just offshore from Cancun, the largest fish in the ocean aggregates in vast numbers to feed. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 761 views • 5:26YouTube description: You probably know not to lick something unfamiliar. But there are actually a surprising number of discoveries that have been made because scientists licked things.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 768 views • 12:19About 10 years ago, the news was packed with reports about something called colony collapse disorder — a mysterious phenomenon that involved the disappearance of enormous numbers of bees. Then, the news... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 4 months 1 week ago • 522 views • 3:30"... an educational video produced by The Computer Museum and hosted by David Neil of PBS's Newton's Apple. Join David Neil and his four young companions on an entertaining and illuminating trek through... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 30 views • 26:32Honeybees are dying from parasites, pesticides, and poor nutrition, but we can help them in a number of ways, including by encouraging them to make a homemade antibiotic.
posted by newtboy 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 120 views • 2:54